Dhaka, April 22 -- Prestigious Harvard University said Wednesday it had removed human skin from the binding of a book held for over 90 years at one of its libraries.
A copy of the 19th-century book "Des Destin,es de l'Ame" - or Destinies of the Soul, a meditation on life after death - was found in 2014 to be bound in the skin of a deceased woman, reports AFP
Harvard said it had removed the binding and noted "past failures in its stewardship of the book that further objectified and compromised the dignity of the human being whose remains were used for its binding."
The university said it was consulting with French authorities "to determine a final respectful disposition of these human remains."
Harvard - widely considered the oldest coll...